Using the UK Biobank as a global reference of worldwide populations: application to measuring ancestry diversity from GWAS summary statistics.

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MOTIVATION: Measuring genetic diversity is an important problem because increasing genetic diversity is a key to making new genetic discoveries, while also being a major source of confounding to be aware of in genetics studies. RESULTS: Using the UK Biobank data, a prospective cohort study with deep genetic and phenotypic data collected on almost 500 000 individuals from across the UK, we carefully define 21...

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